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--- blog:models_mak_fledermaus [2021/08/16 11:31] – [Box Contents] john
+++ blog:models_mak_fledermaus [2022/10/13 10:01] (current) – [In-Progress Images] john
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   * Kit type: Multimedia kit (plastic, rubber piping, brass, etc), fixed pose (no real moving parts)
   * In-universe role: Aircraft, //Strahl Democratic Republic// or can be built as //Mercenary forces// variant
-  * Build date: ???
+  * Build date: October 2022
 This is a 20+ year old kit that I bought from Yahoo Auctions Japan (via [[http://www.buyee.com|Buyee.com]]) in August 2021. Finding one is pretty rare, since they've been out of print for over 20 years and no-one (Wave, Hasegawa, etc) seems to have made a modern reprint of the design.
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 ===== Tools Used =====
+   * Mr Hobby snips
+   * Badger ultimate sanding sticks
+   * Tamiya extra thin cement
 ===== Colours Used =====
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 ===== Box Contents =====
+Contents:
+   * Instruction manual
+   * 2x Painting guides / info cards (one for the //SDR P.K. 40 Fledermaus// variant, one for the //Mercenary J40S// variant)
+   * 1x Waterslide decal sheet (with seperate decals for each variant)
+   * 6x Parts sprues
+     * (unlabelled), beige, fuselage
+     * (unlabelled), clear, sensor covers
+     * a (Hornisse), beige, landing struts etc
+     * b (Hornisse), beige, thrusters & engine parts
+     * c (P.K 40), beige, cockpit, guns etc
+     * d (P.K 40), clear canopy parts
+     * Figure, beige
+   * 1x Bag of multimedia parts (flexible tubing, copper rod, brass mesh)
 Box artwork:
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 ===== In-Progress Images =====
+**[October 2022]** - Started building the Fledermaus kit. There's definitely bits and pieces of this that make it obvious it is a (relatively) ancient kit - parts which don't line up exactly, and things which you wouldn't do in a modern kit (needing the entire interior glued in place before the upper and lower wings can be put in place.
+That said, it's a fairly clean design, and with a bit of thought, goes together relatively easily. Plenty of plastic cement and use of a file is needed on many of the seam lines to tidy them up.
+Lower and upper fuselage sections, with the cockpit partially completed. This is not according to the build instructions, but I checked and the cockpit interior can still be installed, as long as the upper cockpit canopy is not installed.
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+Interior and the five main thrusters (which are all two-part designs):
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+Thrusters fixed in place:
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+Main engine attached to upper fuselage:
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+Upper and lower fuselage temporarily in place (I haven't messed it up, thank goodness):
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+Assembled the pilot figure (minus his hand... which is rolling around my desk somewhere...) and started fitting the additional parts to the fuselage:
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+**[Update 5th October 2022]** - Added 'fuel tanks' to upper fuselage:
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+**[Update 9th October 2022]** - Started building front and rear landing gear:
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+**[Update 12th October 2022]** - Completed landing gear and cutting cockpit canopy to fit:
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